The humble and the exalted

Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted. – Matthew 23:12

Retort 1

 

So now we know: in the afterlife vice is virtue and virtue vice.

 

Retort 2

 

One wonders if the exalted will feel any sympathy for the humbled or just gloat.

 

Retort 3

 

One also wonders if this peculiar symmetry is iterative and continues to replay itself endlessly as one cycles out of one afterlife into another.

 

Retort 4

 

The burning question this prompts is whether the tall will be short and the short tall.

 

Retort 5

 

What’s in store then for someone who follows the middle course?

 

Retort 6

 

Today's exalted had better start purchasing exaltation credit certificates if they want to settle the imbalances when they’ve departed.